Bratachari Dance "Amra Bangali (We Are Bengalee)" .

Bratachari Movement is an attempt to rescue the life of man from its present vicious dis-integration and to restore to it the wholeness of ideal and harmony of conduct by making all humanity conscious of its true harmonious inter relationship with the cosmos, with the world of humanity and with the traditions of regional culture and by furnishing man with a simple system for the attainment of inner self-discipline and national and international unification. According to the Bratachari ideal, all life is derived from joy and is based on joy. Every aspect of life, therefore, whether physical or spiritual unless it is based on joy, and on rhythmic discipline as a means of invoking joy, becomes unreal and dis-integrated. Rhythmic training, however, must be directed towards a wholeness of ideal of life which is simultaneously spiritual and practical ; and this ideal is furnished by the five-fold Brartas or ideals of the Bratachari, viz., Knowledge, Labour, Truth, Unity and Joy.